This is the 2nd half of the list I just sent. Linda --------------------- Forwarded message: From: debbiem@waymark.net (Debbie Mauelshagen) To: SW_VA-L@rootsweb.com ('SW_VA-L') Date: 97-11-18 08:34:23 EST I hope this will help, It was a posting to another list. Debbie M King's evil - Tuberculosis of neck and lymph glands >>>Kruchhusten - Whooping cough >>>Lagrippe - Influenza >>>Lockjaw - Tetanus or infectious disease affecting the muscles of >>>the neck and jaw. Untreated, it is fatal in 8 days >>>Long sickness - Tuberculosis >>>Lues disease - Syphilis >>>Lues venera - Venereal disease >>>Lumbago - Back pain >>>Lung fever - Pneumonia >>>Lung sickness - Tuberculosis >>>Lying in - Time of delivery of infant >>>Malignant sore throat - Diphtheria >>>Mania - Insanity >>>Marasmus - Progressive wasting away of body, like malnutrition >>>Membranous Croup - Diphtheria >>>Meningitis - Inflations of brain or spinal cord >>>Metritis - Inflammation of uterus or purulent vaginal discharge >>>Miasma - Poisonous vapors thought to infect the air >>>Milk fever - Disease from drinking contaminated milk, like undulant fever >>>or brucellosis >>>Milk leg - Post partum thrombophlebitis >>>Milk sickness - Disease from milk of cattle which had eaten poisonous >>>weeds >>>Mormal - Gangrene >>>Morphew - Scurvy blisters on the body >>>Mortification - Gangrene of necrotic tissue >>>Myelitis - Inflammation of the spine >>>Myocarditis - Inflammation of heart muscles >>>Necrosis - Mortification of bones or tissue >>>Nephrosis - Kidney degeneration >>>Nepritis - Inflammation of kidneys >>>Nervous prostration - Extreme exhaustion from inability to control >>>physical and mental activities >>>Neuralgia - Described as discomfort, such as "Headache" was neuralgia in >>>head >>>Nostalgia - Homesickness >>>Palsy - Paralysis or uncontrolled movement of controlled muscles. It was >>>listed as "Cause of death" >>>Paroxysm - Convulsion >>>Pemphigus - Skin disease of watery blisters >>>Pericarditis - Inflammation of heart >>>Peripneumonia - Inflammation of lungs >>>Peritonotis - Inflammation of abdominal area >>>Petechial Fever - Fever characterized by skin spotting >>>Puerperal exhaustion - Death due to child birth >>>Phthiriasis - Lice infestation >>>Phthisis - Chronic wasting away or a name for tuberculosis >>>Plague - An acute febrile highly infectious disease with a high fatality >>>rate >>>Pleurisy - Any pain in the chest area with each breath >>>Podagra - Gout >>>Poliomyelitis - PolioPotter's asthma - Fibroid pthisis >>>Pott's disease - Tuberculosis of spine >>>Puerperal exhaustion - Death due to childbirth >>>Puerperal fever - Elevated temperature after giving birth to an infant >>>Puking fever - Milk sickness >>>Putrid fever - Diphtheria. >>>Quinsy - Tonsillitis. >>>Remitting fever - Malaria >>>Rheumatism - Any disorder associated with pain in joints >>>Rickets - Disease of skeletal system >>>Rose cold - Hay fever or nasal symptoms of an allergy >>>Rotanny fever - (Child's disease) ??? >>>Rubeola - German measles >>>Sanguineous crust - Scab >>>Scarlatina - Scarlet fever >>>Scarlet fever - A disease characterized by red rash >>>Scarlet rash - Roseola >>>Sciatica - Rheumatism in the hips >>>Scirrhus - Cancerous tumors >>>Scotomy - Dizziness, nausea and dimness of sight >>>Scrivener's palsy - Writer's cramp >>>Screws - Rheumatism >>>Scrofula - Tuberculosis of neck lymph glands. Progresses slowly with >>>abscesses and pistulas develop. Young person's disease >>>Scrumpox - Skin disease, impetigo >>>Scurvy - Lack of vitamin C. Symptoms of weakness, spongy gums >>>and hemorrhages under skin >>>Septicemia - Blood poisoning >>>Shakes - Delirium tremens >>>Shaking - Chills, ague >>>Shingles - Viral disease with skin blisters >>>Ship fever - Typhus >>>Siriasis - Inflammation of the brain due to sun exposure >>>Sloes - Milk sickness >>>Small pox - Contagious disease with fever and blisters >>>Softening of brain - Result of stroke or hemorrhage in the brain, with >>>an end result of the tissue softening in that area >>>Sore throat distemper - Diphtheria or quinsy >>>Spanish influenza - Epidemic influenza >>>Spasms - Sudden involuntary contraction of muscle or group of muscles, >>>like a convulsion >>>Spina bifida - Deformity of spine >>>Spotted fever - Either typhus or meningitis >>>Sprue - Tropical disease characterized by intestinal disorders and sore >>>throat >>>St. Anthony's fire - Also erysipelas, but named so because of affected >>>skin areas are bright red in appearance >>>St. Vitas dance - Ceaseless occurrence of rapid complex jerking movements >>>performed involuntary >>>Stomatitis - Inflammation of the mouth >>>Stranger's fever - Yellow fever >>>Strangery - Rupture >>>Sudor anglicus - Sweating sickness >>>Summer complaint - Diarrhea, usually in infants caused by spoiled milk >>>Sunstroke - Uncontrolled elevation of body temperature due to >>>environment heat. Lack of sodium in the body is a predisposing cause >>>Swamp sickness - Could be malaria, typhoid or encephalitis >>>Sweating sickness - Infectious and fatal disease common to UK in 15th >>>century >>>Tetanus - Infectious fever characterized by high fever, headache >>>and dizziness >>>Thrombosis - Blood clot inside blood vessel >>>Thrush - Childhood disease characterized by spots on mouth, lips and >>>throat >>>Tick fever - Rocky mountain spotted fever >>>Toxemia of pregnancy - Eclampsia >>>Trench mouth - Painful ulcers found along gum line, Caused by poor >>>nutrition and poor hygiene >>>Tussis convulsiva - Whooping cough >>>Typhus - Infectious fever characterized high fever, headache, and >>>dizziness >>>Variola - Smallpox >>>Venesection - Bleeding >>>Viper's dance - St. Vitus Dance >>>Water on brain - Enlarged head >>>White swelling - Tuberculosis of the bone >>>Winter fever - Pneumonia >>>Womb fever - Infection of the uterus. >>>Worm fit - Convulsions associated with teething, worms, elevated >>>temperature or diarrhea >>>Yellowjacket - Yellow fever. ==== SW_VA Mailing List ==== If I receive multiple error messages or a message that your mailbox is full, I will UNSUBSCRIBE your address. If it happens often you will be locked out. It is your duty to UNSUBSCRIBE if your mailbox is going to be full. -sysop